to discuss 'Culture in the World'
The Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS) will hold its first major conference, "Culture in the World," Friday-Monday, May 6-9.
CCS seeks to promote the development of concepts and methods that will illuminate the cultural texture of social life at both individual and collective levels, and to apply them to understanding the full range of activities and processes from local to global levels.
While CCS is based in New Haven, it includes students and faculty from the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Israel, Turkey, China, Hong Kong, Australia, Argentina, Canada and the United States. Their fields of research range from cultural sociology to anthropology, communications, comparative literature, geography, history, law, management, performance studies and political science.
"Culture in the World" will bring together many of these researchers for four days of dialogue and debate at the forefront of research in the field -- with particular emphasis on the increasing relevance of culture for institutional research in sociology, and the relationship of cultural sociology to normative critique and political theories of democracy.
The conference will feature six plenary lectures delivered by senior fellows, nine regular sessions featuring 20-minute papers by faculty fellows, and a day of graduate student papers. The topics to be considered include: popular culture, the sociology of art and music, violence and trauma, politics and collective identity, and culture and experience.
The event is free and open to members of the Yale community. A complete program is available at the conference website: http://research.yale.edu/ccs/2005/.
"Culture and the World" has received support from the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, the Provost's Office and the Department of Sociology.
The CCS has its own publishing venture -- the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology Series with Paradigm Press -- and plans to publish several volumes based on this conference.
For more information about the center, visit the website at http://research.yale.edu/ccs/.
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